Dublin Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Free Public Library
Dublin New Hampshire marks the centennial of its public library, claiming it began as a free institution and that the first library in America was supported by public subscription.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1922
Page
15
Dublin New Hampshire marks the centennial of its public library, claiming it began as a free institution and that the first library in America was supported by public subscription.
Dublin honors its claim as home to the first free public librarian in America. The late figure, once the institution's first librarian, is remembered by locals as a pioneer. Two grandsons W Jackson Leonard of Accord Massachusetts and Fred B Leonard of Hinsdale New Hampshire attended the event while Dr Henry H Piper of Boston, a Dublin native, delivered the principal address.
A celebrated airplane designer claims the Turbo Compressor will let aircraft engines hold power in tarified air and enable planes to circle the earth at 40 000 feet or 712 miles in a 24 hour period.
More than 300 American Legion and Legion Auxiliary members left South station on a special seven Pullman train at 2 15 pm for New Orleans for a convention starting Monday. En route they gathered delegations in Worcester and Springfield and will stop at Luray Virginia and Chattanooga to visit sites before arriving in New Orleans for four days of events. The return trip heads back Friday with the train due in Boston Monday morning October 23.
Relatives identified the man who collapsed on a Waltham Street South End street Wednesday afternoon and died before reaching City Hospital as Patrick J Mahoney of 3 Sharon Street. He was 57 and married and had long suffered heart trouble.
Burlington officials and transport and civic groups from New York and Vermont formed a 50 member committee and a 30 member advisory board to plan a 1923 series of Champlain Valley pageants. The goal is to draw one million visitors to the lake towns during the summer season.
James H. Flint longtime Norfolk County probate judge and noted legal author died suddenly of heart disease at his Weymouth home. Born Middleton June 2 1852 he retired from public life after a 40 year Suffolk bar practice. Survived by his wife Abbie A. Pratt. active in law and local clubs, he held posts in state government and banking.
Five boys from St George Boys School were hurt when railing on the Beavertail ferry between Jamestown and Saunderstown Rhode Island collapsed. The group of 40 pupils was en route to a Saunderstown picnic. Jack Lindete, 15, of St Paul Minnesota, sustained both wrists fractured. others from New York Philadelphia and Boston were treated at a local hospital.
Lady Duff-Gordon founder of Lucile's Ltd known as a top modiste files for bankruptcy and asserts she is penniless.
A woman who began as a seamstress in a small room built a business with exclusive shops in London Paris New York Chicago and other major cities earning nearly a million dollars annually. She says she has been discharged from the business she created and is now penniless. In 1918 she merged her growing enterprise with Otto Bernard Schuloff, a prominent American wholesale milliner.
When skin itches or breaks out the Mentho Sulphur cold cream stops itching and begins healing, claims a skin specialist. The sulphur preparation cools irritation and heals eczema with germ killing properties, leaving clear skin. Rowles Mentho Sulphur is sold in small jars at drug stores.
Portrait of Lady Duff-Gordon once famed Lucile as she recounts meeting Schulhoff at the Plaza New York and losing her salary and role. She claims dismissal, debt accusations, and a collapse of the business she founded amid tense disputes and personal misfortune.
A fragment notes Japan as one of the most watered countries in the world, highlighting its climate and hydrological characteristics in a concise comparative statement.
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